A very awkward video of Netanyahu congratulating Obama
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A very awkward video of Netanyahu congratulating Obama
Posted by Max Fisher on November 7, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not seem eager for President Obama to win reelection this week, but that’s what happened, which made this morning’s public meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro a touch uncomfortable.
In the video above, the Israeli leader offers all the standard congratulations and reassurances and looking-forward-to things that a foreign head of state is supposed to make after a U.S. presidential election. But the subtext is tough to miss in his strained body language and in the polite nodding from Shapiro, who might well have lost his posting had Obama lost. —>Continued